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Updated: May 17, 2025
Quintal, indulging his savage nature, caught one of the cats by the neck and tried to strangle it into subjection, but received such punishment with teeth and claws that he was fain to fling it into the sea. It swam ashore, emerged a melancholy "drookit" spectacle, and dashed into the nearest underwood. Thus, one by one, the cats were hunted out of the Bounty, and introduced to their future home.
Oh, it was a delicious refreshment, which some thought fully repaid them for the toil and suffering they had previously undergone. The aspect of the whole band may be described in the language of Sandy Black, who, beholding his friends after the fray, remarked that they were all "dirty and drookit."
"Sure did, Bob. You're some drookit, but I reckon we can dry you like we did the grub," his riding mate said. "Who got me?" "Blame the boss." "We all took a hand, boy," Harshaw explained. "It was quite some job. You were headed for Utah right swift. The boys rode in and claimed ownership. How you feelin'?" "Fine," Bob answered, and he tried to demonstrate by rising. "Hold on. What's yore rush?"
He never got ower't, for it got oot aboot, an' the very bairns at the skule began to ca' him the Drookit Dominie. He got a job at the Druckendub skule, an' never lookit Mysie's airt again." "You're grand crackers," said Mysie. "Ye ken a hankie mair than ever happened; but, the man that cheats me ance, shame fa' him; gin he cheat me twice, shame fa' me. That's my wey o' lookin' at things."
"From the sea, I should say," returned the youth, "to judge from your wet garments." "Ay, we've been drookit," said Sandy Black. "Bring 'em in, Jack," shouted one of the other youths in the tent. "Come inside," said he who was styled Jack, "and have a glass of whisky. There's nothing like whisky to dry a wet skin, is there, Scotty?"
"Where have you been? Nest, your husband is dripping, drookit wet. That's what makes him look so blue and wan." Nest softly laid her baby in its cradle; she was half stupefied with crying, and had not understood to what Owen alluded, when he spoke of his doom being fulfilled, if indeed she had heard the words. Her touch thawed Owen's miserable heart.
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